Best Kept Secret The making of the multiplatinum 1993 hit song Informer by Snow documentary
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- A detailed documentary on the making of the multi-platinum hit song Informer by Reggae artist Snow (Behind the scenes footage & interviews from Snow's lawyer, The Police, Snow's family & friends, Dj Marvin Prince, MC Shan)
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when the police officer said "he was always on the top of our charts" -
The detective man say Snow stabbed someone down the lane.
Yo, that is one of the funniest things I've heard someone say.
Gotta the rawness of the 90s
@@MrParkerman6ah licky boom boom dowwwn
The early 90s was a hell of a fun time and place to be. It was to be the last true decade of love and fun. Thank you for laying down the soundtrack to it, Mr Prince. You guys did something extraordinary. Anyone who was there will always know Informer.
Thanks Jeremy......One love
Yea man. Crazy track
It had all the good things we have now and none of the bad stuff. The internet was free and open the music was curated and even the heroin was safer
For real!!! What a great time for music...the last great time for music. Was never the same after the 90s...
Police officer :Yeah he was on top of our charts.
Canada's most wanted man.
My childhood friend used to dance to “Informer” all the time when we were kids, he passed away in a car accident out in LA in 2009, he was only 25 years old, great memories, 90’s was the best, I still be bumping this in 2021 #RIPJullian
RIP Julian
RIP, sorry for your loss brother
RIP Julian
R.I.P TO YOUR FAM... JUST LOST MY BROTHER. ...
Bro when my brother left this planet I was lost he was the leader he joined the royal navy when 15/ 16 and that was 1980 when he got demobbed about 10 yes ago I thought we could catch up for lost time I love m/cycles brought 1 my bro got 1 also and we planned to ride north south east n west then covid struck and put a block on our reunion he left me man last October age 57 I'm 56 so I'm fuckin worried what's next... mom's got dimensia her husband my stepfather passed few weeks aback ...as you know Mike aiken the world don't stop turning
So bro be strong on this planet
Cus when when where called that it we're done... So just try be strong talk to you soon man
People don’t say this often but it’s 2020 and WE WANT MORE SNOW!!!
What about there’s always a pusher?
A one in a lifetime artist.
That's where it all started (kool herc)
Fuck yeH!!!
*LOLOLOLOL*
And here Drake got us all thinking that he put Toronto on the map.
FR! i fkn hate drake! .. we have so much talent in toronto, and this guy tying to rep us. cant sing or rap in my opinion. but they play his shit ALL DAY on the radio
Who?
Drakes a flop
@@cheeseballer_ u sound ignorant af drake big af
@@skrillahbeats001 Drake is a goose, and no one with any sort of intelligence tries to prove a point while saying "af*
TH-cam algorithm delivers yet another riveting documentary 🤣
Snow is a Legend of Canada to me
It's cool to see this video I was born in 87 and you see nobody with phones all in they hands. Man this was a dope time
The guy actually has a great R&B singing voice. Sounds almost exactly like Lead singer of Colour Me Bad.
Great observation he reminds me of the lead singer!
Yeah same era too. I would love to see more straight singing in
Omg he does! Legit
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GREAT Documentary. With out DJ PRINCE there would have been NO SNOW!
BIG UP MARVIN PRINCE.
Yeah big up to Marvin and Snow and the rest of the crew back in the days in Ajax and Pickering. Came to Canada from Jamaica in 1988 met these guys and we became friends. Never forget were you came from thanks for the memories guys. A me man Marcus Respect 👊🏾. Reds ,Tyrone , Big Mikey , Dean , Ian, Dog Foot , Junior, Rev, and others give thanks!
Jim Carrey’s parody of that song on
In Living Color was hilarious 😂
What an amazing friendship between SNOW and PRINCE....I love seeing people to whom life was cruel, catch a break and use their uniqueness to reach the stars 🌠
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12 inches of snow is one of the best hip hop albums ever.
He was definitely in my cassette tape play list back in the 90's.. one of my favorites.. the white boy before Shady.
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Didn't realize it was the actual DJ who uploaded this. Really amazing documentary and important part of Canadian music history. Really cool to see the time on the road in those days. Snow lives on!
I STILL jam to Snow today. I was just a teenager when his album came out and even my mom liked him! She was amazed I could understand the words and learn them lol.
I'm sure I'm dating myself here but imagine if snow and bizzy bone did a track... I think their flows would go great together
This dude put more work in and has more street cred than 90 percent of these chump ass fake ass rappers today. Superfact!
Not more then Jim Carrey’s imposter
Yep. New rappers let the production do all the work. If the power went out there lack of talent would be exposed. It's smoke and mirrors
I can’t take any one who says superfact serious
@@mrfake675man… I can send you some real rap that probably ain’t no one ever gon hear because of the lack of production
I remember hearing this song on the radio back in the 90’s, great memories 🙏🏻🤘🏻🇨🇦
This is a truly incredible documentary
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Good old days when artists had to have talent to sing and write and be in the process of making the beats, and hustle to come on top
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Americans didn't see it that way. Especially hip hop heads.
Thats a legend right there...
Snow has just that something in his voice and songs that still make me listen to his music in 2019...and i cant get sick of hearing that beautiful voice
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Snow was fire and had a very original sound. I remember him getting so much shit in the 90’s and fizzled out. Jim Carey and in living color kind of buried him. I bump his shit now in 2019 it’s hard body af
The whole album rides
😅
“ Watered Down Reggae “
Jim Carey was a fool 😂
He was hardly any of that but he had fun and a good run..shout out to MC Shan
Most gangster rap artists are posers. The whole issue of authenticity and cultural appropriation is ridiculous. Every culture borrows from another!
Informer and Ice Ice Baby stand on their own and are as good and authentic as most other rap music. My only complaint is that the whole genre of rap and hip hop tends to glorify misogyny, gang violence, consumerism and unbridled ego.
Sad to see good people getting betrayed, however, those good people always receive the ultimate blessings💪🏾💪🏾One Love Prince🇯🇲
Wow that’s deep. In other words, if you achieve greatness and don’t get the rewards instantly, it will come even more one day
I once had the honour and pleasure of meeting him and I have to say he is one the realest cats out there. He's very down to earth and humble if didn't know who he was you would never know he's a celebraty.
Loved this dudes music back in elementary school. I played lady in the red dress one time in my music class. ❤😂
"wayne lonesome"in jamaica brought me here..go check out the interview...certainly opens your mind regarding this bredda snow!
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This video said it all, it's evident that Dj Prince is the one that made Snow who he is today.
Didn't know MC Shan was the producer behind Snow. What a great surprise.
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Before Eminem.....There was Snow, with all the charisma, style, flow and vibe.......👊🏾💯🔥
At the time he was accused of being a culture vulture, a poser like Vanilla Ice, but he never came out and promoted his street cred because he didn't care. He was actually a real one.
They played this song all the time in Gold's Gym in Las Vegas in 1993.
I'm working on doing a great karaoke version of Informer for my 40th bday. Lololol, dream big!! (But honestly, it's not easy, I dare anyone to give it a try to keep pace w/Snow). ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Back then cultural appropriation wasn’t on people’s minds.
The talent shone through
he was the Eminem of reggae/hip hop/rap in a sense
M. O.G. fuck femeniem
Eminem busted into the rap scene with not just a skill, but a high performance level that arguably puts him with one of, if not, the greatest.
Snow gets props; but you can't say the same about him. Dude was fucking up his life & thanks to di yardi dem, music became his saviour. Eminem was ALWAYS into his music & came up, paid dues & went through it. Snow started DJ-ing in jail & got put on after a trip to NY.
Both had their respective come up stories, but they're two different stories and are NOT equal in their respective genres.... PERIOD!
dude hes been around way before EM.. and there's a bunch of white rappers before EM by the way.
Wait! What? Whatchu talkin bout arnold? Yo you need to read up on your history kid.
@@sonrize7679 U Bugging Em is the Nicest MC to EVER pick up a Mic. Don't be a HATER!!!!
Host is Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General! Anyway, shout out to TO, alot of artists out there paved the way for the future of Canadian Hip Hop!
I'm amazed that a movie hasn't been made about Snow's life.
Snow is so talented wow. very very talented person
I never saw this special. Snow was always so dope. Informer, Lonely Monday Morning and especially Anything For You (Remix).
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This music is freaking blast from the past 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Still listening 2022
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You guys were in Vancouver too huh? This is so classic! MC Shan, Marvin Prince and Snow you guys rule
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Sad you two fell out, seemed like a good friendship at the time. Snows mom even bigged you up.
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I am a big fan of you both! Life is too short time to bury the hatchet
I miss these days ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤80 babies rock this 💪🏾💯💯💯💯
Snow is literally 🔥
One of the artist of a lifetime /century
"A lot of us associate rap music with Jamaica.." Wait, what?
Do some research you will be surprised
Indeed! We do not associate it we KNOW it is from Jamaica.
Yeah, chanting was well before rap. It's the EXACT same thing just with a Caribbean accent over reggae.
Your an idiot, go listen to wacktrap puss.
I was thinking the same thing. A lot of people associate rap music with New York is more accurate.
When the president of Warner Canada says he's never heard of someone getting out of prison and making an album... In 1993..........murdahmurdahmurdah was da case that they gave me!
9:23
I've always liked Snow, but he reached legendary status in my book when he said "assault police" ✊🏾
There's something wrong with you.
When your Mom says, “All kids steal chocolate bars from the drugstore” you can expect that kid to go to jail!
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Pine-Sol bro, i still go back to my kid years when I smell it.
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Yoooo, I thought this man was fake af but he’s a real one.
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Him singing runway is awesome! Wish there was a full live video
There is
I made his lines from Con Calma my ringtone because the man is da originator! Big up Snow, Dj Prince and MC Shan!
One love Zilli
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wow I swear the houses in snows old neighbourhood looks almost like the houses where I grew up in Birmingham UK
I remember when this came out, just before high school, I never heard any other song besides informer. The game is a little different here in the US, we all thought he was a snitch lol. Nobody in my neighborhood was blasting a song called informer you feel me lol.
this is the best thing ive watched on youtube!!!long live snow!!!2022!!!
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God snow was fit as hell back in the day!
Big ups to Marvin mad respect to the guy. If it wasn't for him I reckon there would have been no Snow!
The Rascalz brought canadian hip hop on my map!
Never knew that this existed, thanks for posting
Where SNOW grew up (Allenbury Gardens Public Housing, North York, Toronto) and where Keanu Reeves went to school (North Toronto Collegiate Institute) were actually VERY close to each other. Roughly 9 KM or 5.6 Miles !!
I remember seeing that arsenio Hall show live, also remember him doing a few others 90s we're lit.
Say what you want but this was a time of people writing their own songs and making their own beats.
Real talk
Excellent to see more and more about SNOW.... for me is the best singer ever.... shame that marketing now days makes only plastic singers of sh$#**
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I was in my mid 20's, working electro-mechanical assembly job with a bunch of 19 y.o. kids who were going to ITT Tech for their "degree". This song was huge and when it came on on the floor, work stopped.
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Think the lady even thought what "12 inches of snow" was about?
LMAO!! 😂😂
this guy snow rocks way back in early 90's ,it was about the same time dr. Alban emerges in Sweden
Do you want snow!? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET SNOW!
Tell them this is the origins of rap ,hip hop ect . Jamaican
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I'm so excited i found out he is still doing music
Love and respect snow he his a legend
That tall black lady he was signing his autograph too, swear I seen her on the Don Mills 25 Bus a few years ago. She looks the same. Allenbury's not the same anymore, after like 2007 they knocked it down bare condos everywhere now.
"That is SO lovely "
Best
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Lady with the red dress on , hey pretty love ... bangerzz!
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Lols at how young the crowd is
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Love it! I used to tell my girls in high school that the song story was Jamaican patois for snitches get stitches
Dude seems pretty grounded for double platinum.
Only in Canada can you get an endorsement from a cop that arrested you.
Shhh! What?! I am an expat from California, now in Canada... and everyday it seems I have to say, “they’re Canadian, too??” Its fitting that life landed me here , but it would have been nice to know that I would keep being enlightened by almost all the artists I’ve ever enjoyed. 🤯
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One hit wonder, but he was talented. The stuff he did was too niche at the time. It was too chill. They would fit right in now. He'd be selling today.
He wasn't a one hit wonder though. He had a few top 10/number 1/ and top 50. Even in the states he charted high enough not to be in the one hit wonder category.
"One hit wonders" will ALWAYS be better than a "Never was"!!
Are you sure he was a 1 hit wonder.....chech out his catalog
@@allenm.355 Let's see if I remember. What I call a hit would be something that plays on the radio. He got like 1 or 2 more songs. "Girl I've been hurt...now I need another lover..." And another one which I wasn't feeling. So maybe 2 and a half songs that made it.
@@Tusc9969 True dat! I have great respect for "one hit wonders"!
*"Imposter" from Jim Carrey (In Living Color) brought me here😆*
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Great song of my youth. Great guy 👍🏿
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His mum "ALL little kids steal chocolate bars" 😂😂😂
Moms lookin hot!
straight cougar
Is this comment from the 80s??
wish snow would drop a new album! saludos desde guatemala
You never know where life will take you....
This Trini Man stamp this artist as an all-time classic!
How do you get “ill knock the informer out” from “licky boom boom down?
if you're west
indian you would get it
Licky = leaky = informer
Boom boom = gunfire
Down = dead
@@cantstanja yea thats a stretch
@@user-qc6wi3dw5x That's literally the origin to Jamaican lexicon. It was derived from pidgin English.
A beat down is when u lick the tar out of someone...boom boom means knock u out boom boom and ur down!!
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I so remember this song back in the day…that and lonely Monday morning song was like the 2 songs at that time lol
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That 12” got me too.🤷🏽♀️
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damn finding out he valid makes me appreciate why i loved it back then
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Drink a beer and punch you in da mouth! Best line
What the hell? Looks like an A&E special that came on after murder she wrote
0:02 Literally nobody has ever thought or said this...
Living inspiration
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Two things you need to know about the J to tha R O C
26 years ago! 😮